Sunday, April 20, 2008

Synesthesia

A most interesting phenomenon I came across today: Synesthesia

Per wikipedia: "Synesthesia is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise)."

I am in awe at the byzantine ways of the brain!

2 comments:

Prabhu Chinnappan said...

Wierd one.
Try to rub ur eyes a little bit and open quick, you see some sort of irregular lines or objects floating in front and vanish.
Try out :-)

Prabhu Chinnappan said...

Wierd one.
Try to rub ur eyes a little bit and open quick, you see some sort of irregular lines or objects floating in front and vanish.
Try out :-)